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Open U10:
🥇 Sina Movahed (🇮🇷 1804)
🥈 FM Vaclav Finek (🇨🇿 2361)
🥉 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa(🇮🇳 1547)
Girls U10:
🥇 WCM Omya Vidyarthi (🇺🇸 1709)
🥈 Elnaz Kaliakhmet (🇰🇿 1426)
🥉 Diana Preobrazhenskaya(🇷🇺 1629)
🥇 Sina Movahed (🇮🇷 1804)
🥈 FM Vaclav Finek (🇨🇿 2361)
🥉 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa(🇮🇳 1547)
Girls U10:
🥇 WCM Omya Vidyarthi (🇺🇸 1709)
🥈 Elnaz Kaliakhmet (🇰🇿 1426)
🥉 Diana Preobrazhenskaya(🇷🇺 1629)
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Emanuel Lasker was born on December 24, 1868. The longest-reigning world chess champion, he retained his title for 26 years and 337 days from 1894 to 1921.
He was also a mathematician, philosopher, and excelled in other games like bridge or Go.
#OnThisDay #ChessHistory
He was also a mathematician, philosopher, and excelled in other games like bridge or Go.
#OnThisDay #ChessHistory
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Emanuel Lasker's Best Chess Tactics -1
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#OnThisDay in 1868 the German mathematician, philosopher, and most of all, the second official world chess champion Emanuel Lasker was born. Lasker still holds the record for the longest reign: 27 years.
Here's a lesson where you can Play like Lasker:
https://www.chess.com/lessons/play-like-emanual-lasker
Here's a lesson where you can Play like Lasker:
https://www.chess.com/lessons/play-like-emanual-lasker
Chess.com
Play Like Emanuel Lasker - Chess Lessons
Emanuel Lasker was the 2nd World Champion and reigned for a record 27 years between 1894 and 1921. Find out how he did it by figuring out the moves of five of his greatest games!
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⚔️ Tactical shot of the day
♟ #OnThisDay in 1868, the great Emanuel Lasker was born. He was the world champion for 27 years. Albert Einstein was a good friend of him!
♟ Lasker playing black found an immediate way to win the game. Can you spot it?
♟ Chigorin vs Lasker, 1895
♟ #OnThisDay in 1868, the great Emanuel Lasker was born. He was the world champion for 27 years. Albert Einstein was a good friend of him!
♟ Lasker playing black found an immediate way to win the game. Can you spot it?
♟ Chigorin vs Lasker, 1895
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🔗 Tanmaya Lal (@Tanmaya\_Lal):
No guesses !
Vishy Anand was crowned the FIDE World Champion for the first time this day two decades ago in Tehran
A memorable title match to follow for us serving then in Iran
Seen here posing excitedly with Aruna and Vishy ♟
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🔗 Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking):
Today ....20 years ago . Any guesses?
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No guesses !
Vishy Anand was crowned the FIDE World Champion for the first time this day two decades ago in Tehran
A memorable title match to follow for us serving then in Iran
Seen here posing excitedly with Aruna and Vishy ♟
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🔗 Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking):
Today ....20 years ago . Any guesses?
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Memories of another day
🔗 Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking)
20 years ago #OnThisDay Vishy Anand won his first of five world championship titles. Starting from a 100-player knockout, the final, played in Tehran, Iran, saw Anand beating Alexei Shirov 3.5-0.5.
#Legend
🔗 Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking)
20 years ago #OnThisDay Vishy Anand won his first of five world championship titles. Starting from a 100-player knockout, the final, played in Tehran, Iran, saw Anand beating Alexei Shirov 3.5-0.5.
#Legend
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Daily chess puzzle
Valery Skatchkov - Meri Arabidze, Titled Tuesday 2020
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/216310
Valery Skatchkov - Meri Arabidze, Titled Tuesday 2020
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/216310
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Puzzle 216310: Black to checkmate
Click the diagram to solve this chess puzzle from the game Skatchkov, Valery - Arabidze, Meri, chess.com 2020.
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Mikhail Botvinnik during a simultaneous exhibition while touring the Netherlands in late 1958 (Associated Press archive).
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
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Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 47
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John Donaldson's new book on Bobby Fischer says that Fischer's name first appeared in print in Helms' "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" column of January 18, 1951 (when he was 7, not 8). I have looked up that column.
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
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🎂 Today is the birthday of Irina Krush, the only female American to hold the title of Grandmaster.
At age 14, Irina won the 1998 US Women's Chess Championship - the youngest ever in history, and a record that still stands. She has won this title on seven other occasions.
At age 14, Irina won the 1998 US Women's Chess Championship - the youngest ever in history, and a record that still stands. She has won this title on seven other occasions.
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Mamedyarov Wins Dec. 22 Titled Tuesday
https://www.chess.com/news/view/mamedyarov-wins-dec-22-titled-tuesday
https://www.chess.com/news/view/mamedyarov-wins-dec-22-titled-tuesday
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*** Titled Tuesday Blitz
Official
Rating: Open 766 players Dec 22, 2020, 9:30 PM
Official
Rating: Open 766 players Dec 22, 2020, 9:30 PM